IS, 104

APOLLONIUS of Tyana, his view of Helen of Troy, 36

AQUINAS, Thomas, 193

"ARABIAN Nights, The," 139-140

ARABS, in Spain, 163-167

ARAGON, the source of the _gaya cienca_, 172

ARISTOPHANES, 29; Athenian women in, 42;
his explanation of the duality of love, 69-70

ARISTOTLE, 61

ARMENIA, its contribution to Babylon, 3

ART, Greek, bad influence of, on the worship of Aphrodite, 32

ARTHUR, King, story of, 152

ASCETICISM, its persistence, 118-119

ASHTAROTH, 5;
ruled in Judaea, 11;
reviled by the Hebrew Prophets, 11, 12

ASPASIA, the age of, 53-64;
her relation with Pericles, 56;
her story, 56-57;
the ruler of Pericles, 62;
her power over Pericles, 63;
what she did for woman, 62;
her revelation of womanly power, 63

ASTARTE, 5;
came to Rome from Syria, 104

ASTRONOMY, relation to love, 68

ATHENS, in the age of Pericles, 59-60;
and Sparta, duel between, 60-61

ATTHIS, lover of Sappho, 49

ATTILA, 121;
his death, 121

ATTRACTION, the law of, 259

AUGUSTUS, age of, 101-106;
his turpitude, 102

BAAL, 10, 11

BACON, Friar, 193

BABYLON, influence of Semiramis on, 3;
influence of Nineveh on, 3, 4;
contribution of Armenia to, 3;
the daughters of, 4;
the inspirer of Solomon, 13

BACCHUS, Antony's tutelary god, 91

BEATRICE and Dante, 98;
Dante's love for, 177-180

BEAUTY, the religion of Greece, 28, 29;
its worship by the Greeks, 58-59;
its stimulating force, 70-71;
the secret of life, 87;
the secret of death, 87;
at the beginning of the Reformation, 201;
as advanced by Ficino and expounded by Bembo, 204, 205;
may be degraded but never vulgarized, 211

BEMBO, 204

BERANGER, on Society, 249

BERTHEFLEDE, story of, 125

BLUEBEARD, 191-197;
an example of haematomania, 194-196

BOCCACCIO, 177, 178;
the Decameron of, 188-190;
his work the signal for the Renaissance, 189-190

BOEOTIA, the scene of Lesbian rites, 46

BORGIAS, the, 200

BOSSUET, 135;
and Quietism, 238

BRAHMANISM, its evil influence on the poetry of the Vedas, 9

BROCELIANDE, 152

BRANTOME, 215, 216, 217, 219

BUDDHA, his teachings the same as Christ's, 113

BYZANCE, in the Middle Ages, 139;
the teacher of English civilization, 141

CAESAR, JULIUS, his treatment of women, 85;
his te